Improvement in fruit-baskets



A. DEAN-Pp Improvement in Fruit-Baskets.

Nb. 130,025. Fig.1. Patented July so ARGUS DEAN, or OTTO, INDIANA.

P TENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRUIT-BASKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,025, dated July 30,1872.

Specification of a Fruit-Basket, invented by ARGUs DEAN, of Otto, Clarkecounty, Indi-' ana.

' Nature and Objects of the Intention.

My invention relates to a construction of fruit-basket, designed tocombine economy of manufacture with capacity, for the most secure andconvenient stowage and safe trans portation of the fruit with the mostadvantageous display thereof when the basket is opened.

Description with Reference to the Drawing.

A, which staves are connected together and held at the proper distanceapart by means of two interior hoops, B B, whose edges are flush withthe ends of the staves, and two exterior hoops, G 0, whose edges extendsome distance beyond the ends of thestaves. Nails 1), driven throughboth hoops and staves, serve to hold all firmly together. The basketflares from below upward, as shown, and has two heads, EI'F, which restupon the ends of the staves and the edges of the inner hoops,

and are retained in place by cleats G, which are tacked upon the innersurface of the outer hoops. The heads have thus a firm bearing,

even with comparatively thin staves and hoops.

In filling the.basket is inverted and the smaller head F removed, so asto pack from the large end. 7 The advantages of this mode of packingare, that a layer of uniform fruit can be arranged upon the larger head,and, as no one projects more than another, none will become bruised, andwhen opened the fruit is seen smooth, uniform, and perfectly preserved.Some care is necessarily required in leveling up the top layer beforeheading in, and the labor of doing this is small in proportion to thecomparatively small area of the bottom.

Thev flaring form of the basket enables a number of them, when empty, tobe nested together for shipping.

It will be seen that the ends of the staves, being flush with the innerhoops, secure a wide rabbet or shoulder for the head, even withcomparatively thin material.

Claim.

I claim- As a new article of manufacture, the fruitbasket, composed ofthe parts A B B G 0 D E F, arranged and connected as set forth.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

ARGUS DEAN. Attest:

" Gno. H. KNIGHT,

J AMES H. LAYMAN.

